School Sport Coach

Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport (LRS); Leicester; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport (LRS) invites applications for a part-time School Sport Coach based in Leicester. The role delivers programmes and supports events across the city, working with young people who may face barriers to a healthy lifestyle.

The post is temporary until July 2027 with a salary of £13,260 to £18,097. Interviews are planned early October. You will join a team of coaches and officers to promote wellbeing and active participation through enjoyable, engaging activities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering sport or wellbeing programmes to young people.

Responsibilities

• Deliver programmes and support events across the city with other coaches and officers.
• Work with young people who may face barriers to a healthy lifestyle.
• Ensure activities are fun, engaging and promote lifelong activity.

Skills

Youth engagement

Wellbeing promotion

Activity delivery

Team working

Job description

The role of the coach is to deliver programmes and support events across the city along with our other coaches and officers. You will be working with young people who may face barriers to a healthy lifestyle. Our programmes and events need to be delivered in an inspirational, supportive way which above all children find fun and engaging to bring the best out of them and to help them to discover enjoyment in movement to support activity for life.

Salary £13,260 to £18,097 Hours Part Time Contract Contract/Temporary (Temporary until July 2027) Placed On Mon 14th September, 2026 Closes 9:00am - Mon 28th September, 2026 Interview Date Mon 5th October, 2026

About School Sport Coach

Thank you for expressing an interest in this key vacancy as part of the Inspire Together team based at our college.

Over the last six years we have been on a journey to try and make this school not only one of the best schools for children to attend but also one of the best schools to work in as a member of staff. That is extremely rare, and we urge you to come and see us in action, speak to the staff and speak to the students. Every decision that we take is done with a lot of thought and consideration and we put wellbeing at the centre, so that teachers can teach, and students can learn.

There is always a tension between wellbeing and accountability, but I do believe that we are getting closer to finding the sweet spot between the two. Although it is not the end of our journey, we have been recognised for the work we do in this area; we have won the wellbeing school of the year award and have also been shortlisted for the prestigious Pearson's Award for secondary school of the year 2023.

The role of the coach is to deliver programmes and support events across the city along with our other coaches and officers. You will be working with young people who may face barriers to a healthy lifestyle. Our programmes and events need to be delivered in an inspirational, supportive way which above all children find fun and engaging to bring the best out of them and to help them to discover enjoyment in movement to support activity for life. We currently deliver on behalf of the FA, RFU, LTA and Public Health Leicester, and the successful candidate may have the opportunity to learn new skills in all of these areas. This is an exciting time to be joining Inspire Together as we look to move into the next phase of the re-imagined school sports partnerships. Although the post is on a fixed term basis until the end of the academic year, we hope that we will be able to extend it into the future.

We have a very different approach and we are trying to create a very different culture at CHCC and Inspire Together, a culture whereby those in leadership do not hold authority and deserve to be followed; leaders at CHCC have to earn the right to lead and we welcome and appreciate challenge if we do not live up to the standards that are expected of us.

The THIRST values permeate all that we do and are a framework that staff can hold leaders to account for the way that they lead. We have high expectations, but we will provide the support, training and resources for you to deliver the best possible education for our students.

We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform, and sta here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.

As a result, we have improved our headline figures year on year and initial analysis places us in the top 12% of schools nationally for progress, although we know that we can still do better.

I would urge you to read our Wellbeing charter that provides you with an understanding of things that we do to just make your job that little bit easier, not tokenistic but just genuine little things that help.

Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 28th September 2026

Interviews likely to be in the week beginning 5th October

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